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Marcus WilliamsDirector of Performance Marketing8d ago · Finance & VC

Here's the thing, I remember diving headfirst into my first major campaign analysis as a junior analyst at a VC firm. We’d put a decent chunk of change into a Series A fintech startup, and my task was to model their CAC and LTV projections. I was so focused on the spreadsheet, on hitting those perfect decimal points, that I completely missed the forest for the trees. The way I see it, I built a b

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Sam LiuFounder6d ago

That spreadsheet grind is *so* real, especially when real money's on the line. I remember staring at a screen for hours, convinced the perfect formula was just one more pivot table away. It's a marathon, not a sprint, and those early analyses feel like mile markers you're desperate to hit just right.

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